Synodic month length 29.35 days

Length of current 255 lunation is 29 days, 8 hours and 19 minutes. This is the year's shortest synodic month of 2020. It is 12 minutes shorter than next lunation 256 length.

Lunation length shorter than mean

Length of current synodic month is 4 hours and 26 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 44 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.

Lunar orbit position on 12 September 2020 Saturday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠322.3°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠322.3°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠341.2°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon before perigee

6 days after point of apogee on 6 September 2020 at 06:31 in ♈ Aries. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 6 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 18 September 2020 at 13:44 in ♎ Libra.

Distance to Moon 386 912 km

Moon after ascending node

1 day after its ascending node on 10 September 2020 at 23:05 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 11 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 23 September 2020 at 12:33 in ♐ Sagittarius.

Draconic month

Moon in northern standstill

At 05:25 on this date the Moon is meeting its North standstill point, when it will reach northern declination of ∠24.353°. Next 12 days the lunar orbit will move in opposite southward direction to face South declination of ∠-24.458° in its southern standstill point on 24 September 2020 at 19:11 in ♑ Capricorn.